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What a fun weekend! Months ago before Abigail was born, Melissa signed up for the Frederick Half Marathon as motivation to get back in shape post Abigail and before her sister's wedding. While signing up she noticed there was a Kid Fun Run. Carson enjoys going to Melissa's races and really enjoys running herself, so Melissa signed her up. Over the past couple months Melissa has been pounding the pavement to get miles in working up to the 13.1 miles required for the race. Carson would go to the end of the drive way to cheer mommy on. Occasionally, when Melissa would return from her runs, Carson would go with her on a cool down lap. The route was one lap around our street which is 1/4 mile uphill and 1/4 mile downhill for a total of 1/2 mile. Carson, being only 4 years old, would run this lap with no problems, even accelerating up the hill.

Come race day Carson was excited! She picked up her race packet with bib number and shirt and couldn't wait to put it on. It was official, with her number, she was just like Mommy. To the starting line we went with over 300 other kids.

Neither 300 kids, nor race day butterflies can phase this girl. Carson was cool as a cucumber. She was thumbs up and ready to RUN!

The starting siren went off and Carson sprinted out of the gate. Surprisingly she kept this pace the entire race, passing boys and older kids. Crossing the finish line she raised her arms in VICTORY!! She had completed her first official race!!

Post race she was extremely proud of her medal. Being the kind hearted girl she is, the first thing she did was to let Blake wear it. We couldn't be more proud of her.

I put together a video recapping her first race (Carson is wearing white shorts and pink shoes in the race day video) ....

The next day it was the adult turn; the half marathon. Melissa and her two sisters, Caitlin and Emma were running in this one. Carson made signs of encouragement for the runners. Melissa's sign read "Go Mommy Go" and "Watch out for cars" because Carson was very concerned that Mommy would be running in the streets and not on side walks. Caitlin and Emma's sign read "Run Faster If You Want To Win" and had a drawling of a sad bunny. He was sad because "he ate too much sugar and his belly hurt".

During the race, Jody (Caitlin's fiancee), Scott (Emma's boyfriend), Abigail, Blake, Carson and I went to various points along the race route to cheer on the 5,000 runners. Everyone did an amazing job. 13.1 miles is no joke! Unfortunately, we were cheering so much we forgot to take pictures. Luckily MarathonFoto.com was there taking pictures of the runners coming down the home stretch just before crossing the finish line.

The sisters did incredibly well with each one beating their goal time!!!

Post race was a time for Ibuprofen, water, ice, and pictures. I could not be more proud of all of these ladies.